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"Stalinist Ideology and the Lysenko Affair", in Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Oren Solomon Harman, "C. D. Darlington and the British and American Reaction to Lysenko and the Soviet Conception of Science." Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 36 No. 2 (New York: Springer, 2003)
According to The Atlantic writer Sam Kean, "Lysenko gutted it, and by some accounts, set Russian biology and agronomy back a half-century". [9] Lysenko's work was eventually recognized as fraudulent by some, "but not before he had wrecked the lives of many and destroyed the reputation of Russian biology" according to scientist Peter Gluckman. [42]
In the mid-1930s, the agronomist Trofim Lysenko started a campaign against genetics [5] and was supported by Stalin. If the field of genetics' connection to Nazis wasn't enough, Mendelian genetics was also suppressed due to beliefs that it was "bourgeoisie science" and its association with the priest Gregor Mendel due to hostility to religion because of the Soviet policy of state atheism.
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University. At the start of the 18th century the reforms of Peter the Great (founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University) and the work of such champions as polymath Mikhail Lomonosov (the founder of Moscow State University) gave a great boost to the ...
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН)Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and ...
The word "mech" is a Russian translation of the Romanian "spadă" (sword), which originated with Spătar (Sword-bearer). His elder brother Lev became a prominent geographer and sociologist. [28] In 1856, Metchnikoff entered the Kharkov Lycée, where he developed his interest in biology.
Russian History (Russian: Российская история, romanized: Rossiiskaya istoriia), formerly named History of the USSR (Russian: История СССР, romanized: Istoriia SSSR) (1957–1992) [1] and National History (Russian: Отечественная история, romanized: Otechestvennaia istoriia) (1992–2008), is a journal of the Institute of History of the Russian ...
The Elektronika MK-51 calculator, introduced in 1982. Science and technology in the Soviet Union served as an important part of national politics, practices, and identity. From the time of Lenin until the dissolution of the USSR in the early 1990s, both science and technology were intimately linked to the ideology and practical functioning of ...